Angel Ponce

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Senior Front-end Engineer at justia.com, coffee aficionado and book enjoyer.
Websitehttps://angelponce.com

I finally took some time to check out @halide Process Zero mode, and I like it a lot. The grain looks fantastic!

I edited it a bit in Lightroom, mostly turning the highlights way up to get a high-contrast look, which I think suits the photo.

This is view source on the Threads homepage. Modern front end development is beyond satire at this point. In desktop Firefox with out-of-the-box uBlock Origin, it renders a completely black page.

At some point, people will rediscover the unfashionable idea that plain old HTML is pretty good if your goal is publishing bits of text on the internet. Maybe after that, if they want to make it look nice, they could look into these exciting new Cascading Style Sheets we hear so much about.

[Large language models and full-text search](https://rhonabwy.com/2023/02/08/large-language-models-and-search/)
Large language models and Search

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Following on @pluralistic's brilliant article about the "enshittification" process of companies, I added in something that I thought was missing from Cory's analysis: the role of "The Friedman Doctrine" that the only thing companies should work for are maximizing profits for shareholders... and highlighting how that leaves out not just other stakeholders, but the important variable of "over what time frame."

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/24/how-the-friedman-doctrine-leads-to-the-enshittification-of-all-things/

How The Friedman Doctrine Leads To The Enshittification Of All Things

We recently wrote about Cory Doctorow’s great article on how the “enshittification” of social media (mainly Facebook and Twitter) was helping to lower the “switching costs&#…

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